When I tried SimonSays out, I found that upload went smoothly and the service managed to return a decent transcript despite being given a poor quality recording. Of course, there were errors in the transcription, but I expected that because the content I gave it contained a lot of technical language. It still saved me a lot of time to avoid having to laboriously transcribe the whole file myself. The one thing I want that the service doesn't currently offer is the ability to pay for the service using Apple Pay.

This is yet another app that exists, not because thought, testing, planning, and user need was considered, but rather simply yet-another-tech-company deciding “Hey, yep, we need an app.”The FCPX plugin doesn’t work. Uninstalling the app does not ‘talk’ to the FCPX plugin and uninstall/sync to that. Exporting a simple .wav audio file round trip from FCPX fails, the app window disappears, and the buggy, poorly written software shines in all its useless glory.So…Here’s the good news: have you ever heard of a web browser? Firefox? Safari? Brave? Just use a web browser, type in this thing called a URL and, BOOM, you can do EVERYTHING this app tries (and fails) to do and more.Basically, there’s ZERO reason to use this app. It’s a wrapper app, meaning for example, to edit a transcribed file, you must open an embedded HTML web page, login to Simon Says, etc. The same thing you’d do if you just opened Chrome. The lazy developer’s way of quickly building an App. Not native AI, but round-tripping to a web page just as if you opened a Chrome window inside the app window. Don’t bother and just edit/manage your files using their website which works ok enough. The app is useless and I deleted it from my Mac in less time it took to write this review.

The short: The app is super buggy, doesn't work and was a waste of my money.The Long: I've been looking for an app that can both transcribe my interviews and also have them show up as ranges in FCPX. Unfortunetely Simon Says is super buggy to the point of being unsuable. The app is constantly crashing on me when I try to bookmark or add notes. Then when it launches back up all the previous work I've done is gone. Also the edit feature doesn't work at all. I'm using the latest version. Apparently Simon Says doesn't give refunds. If someone from Simon Says sees this, please reconsider giving refunds or seriously fix all the problems. I would love to use your app if it actually worked but until you do fix these issues I feel like I just threw $13 down the drain.

This app has completely changed the way I edit. It quickly and efficiently transcribes and translates in multiple formats, saving me hours upon hours of time in the NLE. It won't do all of your work for you (still need to correct specific terminology), but what ai does? I can't imagine working without Simon Says, and have already referred it to many colleagues. I look forward to growing with Simon Says, and I can't wait to see what innovations they come up with in the future.

I produce a lot of content for universities and public broadcast. Over the last 5 years our needs for closed captioning and translation have increaded tremdously. I've worked with half a dozen vendors with mixed reults and prices. Rarely can one vendor cover all of our needs. Add the convienance of NLE integration and I have never been more excited! Simon Says deserves 5 minutes of your time. You won't want to go back to any other service after this.

We're using this service as a tool for our editing of a feature documentary. The auto transcription is fine and on par with all other auto transcription services. I think they all use the same API anyway. But with this tool we can have an assistant clean up the auto transcript and get the text into the edit system using highlights/favorites. Once we figurd out how to use it within our system it's super helpful and a big time-saver in the editing process of a feature film.

I instantly took my video editing workflow on any talking head footage to a new speedy workflow. this is a long time dream come true. even better than imagined with the increadibly effective assembly mode. i even had a bug with FCPX and the SS team was so responsive to help get the bug fixed and an update made to the app within 24 hours! they even got on the phone with me to help solve the problem. This company is changing the game for the film industry! thank you Simon Says Ai! AO Productions loves you forever!

The quality is subpar - I had to edit around a quarter of the full 8 minute output - it does not pick up accents well at all. Additionally, editing the transcription is an absolute pain. It opens up a webpage pop up within their app, which in itself is an incredily slow an painful process, with again very slow load times and touchy menus. It comes together feeling very messy and unpolished. They mentioned 2 months ago they were implementing in-app editing 'soon' - well it seems soon isn't 2 months in their books, so who knows! That's a bit of a deal breaker for me.

I added some audio clips to this app thinking I could export the resulting transcriptions to Resolve, but I was wrong. It appears that the only way to get the markers into Resolve is if I send them through the initial script. This means that I now have to pay again for the same transcription and go through all the manual work of fixing it again. The script also didn't work with every one of my clips. Very clunky. Probably a better experience for other applications.

It does transcribe and does it fairly well. However - everything else it does is complete jank. The editor is choppy and where you are trying to edit text jumps around without reason. The software’s ability to recognize different voices is a complete joke and is 100% inaccurate. It can’t tell the difference between radically different voices which you would assume would be the easiest. When creating names for speakers the software will duplicate the names for no reason. This software behaves much more like a beta test rather than something that is ready for mass distribution. Glitchy and slow.